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It draws on Carl Mitcham’s Thinking through Technology and Andrew Feenberg’s critical theory to clarify the concept of volition/axiology and its link to methodology. 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As the central aspect of technology education, design has a prominent position in curricula all over the world, not just in subjects named Design and Technology, but also in most technology and engineering subjects in schools. In philosophy, it has been asserted that design volition (axiology) has a strong relationship with and in many ways forms the basis of design as a methodological stance. The primary philosophical frameworks used as the foundation for the philosophical analysis presented in this article are the ones introduced by Carl Mitcham in his Thinking through Technology (1994) and Andrew Feenberg’s critical theory of technology. We perform a narrative review of relevant literature. Based on this review, we attempt a clearer definition of the lucid concept of volition/axiology in the literature, as well as explicate the relationship between axiology and methodology. In particular, we investigate this relationship in terms of values, intentionality, and sustainability in design. We review design as a societal and value-laden phenomenon, prone to strong and weak intentionality where expert and lay designers converge or diverge on sustainable values depending on the amount of interpretative flexibility. Concerning implications, school teaching needs to be founded on design volition which does not reduce technology education to technical education. Technology teachers and students need to be explicit about the values involved at all levels of technology and to clarify, justify, and debate their choices. Students must also be exposed to the way in which “sustainable values” might decrease interpretative flexibility and increase the opportunities for a technology to be sustainable in the medium to long term.  \nKeywords: Design, Volition, Technology Education, Philosophy of Technology, Sustainability, Sustainable Values  \nHallström, J., & Ankiewicz, P. (2024) . Foregrounding Sustainable Values in Technology Education: Philosophical Perspectives on Design Volition, 35(2), 8-22.  \n[https://doi.org/10.21061/jte.v35i2.a.2](https://doi.org/10.21061/jte.v35i2.a.2)  \nIntroduction  \nDesign is a central aspect of technology education and has a prominent position in curricula all over the world in most technology and engineering subjects in schools. Design is conceived of as a broad activity including design thinking, methods, and processes where both procedural, conceptual, and contextual knowledge components interact (e.g., Williams, 2000) . The methods of design can be thought of as being mainly technical, to achieve the optimal way of transforming customer requirements into products (e.g., Bertoni, 2020) . On the other hand, in recent years an increasing body of literature has pointed to the fact that designs – products and systems – also embody values. Engaging in technological, engineering, or architectural design thus means not only reflecting on and producing knowledge about the designs but also embedding various values in the stages of design processes as well as in the final products (e.g., Clarke et al., 2020; Martin, 2002; Middleton, 2005; Pavlova, 2005) . However, there is still a great deal of conceptual confusion surrounding both human engagement and the inclusion of values in technology education. For example, what values are and how to define various design approaches are debated issues (e.g., values-based design, as opposed to value-driven design, see Bertoni, 2020; Clarke et al., 2020) . In this study, we therefore strive to philosophically clarify the notion of values and how humans through their will (volition) embed them in technological designing and designs. 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